12 Facts About Lawrence Humphrey

Lawrence Humphrey DD was an English theologian, who was President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dean successively of Gloucester and Winchester.

Lawrence Humphrey was first educated at the University of Cambridge.

Lawrence Humphrey was elected to a demy at Magdalen College in 1546 and Fellow in 1548.

Lawrence Humphrey was noted as one of the most promising pupils of Pietro Martire Vermigli, and on Mary's accession obtained leave from his college to travel abroad.

Lawrence Humphrey lived at Basel, Zurich, Frankfurt and Geneva, making the acquaintance of the leading Swiss divines, whose ecclesiastical views he adopted.

Lawrence Humphrey's leave of absence having expired in 1556, he ceased to be fellow of Magdalen.

The fellows refused at first to elect so pronounced a reformer, but they yielded in 1561, and Lawrence Humphrey gradually converted the college into a stronghold of Puritanism.

In spite of Bullinger's advice, Lawrence Humphrey refused to conform; and Parker wished to deprive him as well as Sampson.

Parker, in fact, was not supported by the council; in 1566 Lawrence Humphrey was selected to preach at St Paul's Cross, and was allowed to do so without the vestments.

Lawrence Humphrey yielded on the point before 1571 when he was made dean of Gloucester.

Lawrence Humphrey was a prolific writer on theological and other subjects.

About the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I, Lawrence Humphrey married Joan Inkfordby, daughter of Andrew Inkfordby of Ipswich.